Staff Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake) — Hybrid NYC

versemedical; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (100% premium)

401(k) with no matching

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Verse Medical in New York, NY is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to own the data platform layer and scale critical pipelines. You will oversee source pipelines, data governance, and observability while shaping data strategies across teams.

Bring 8+ years in data engineering, deep Snowflake and SQL expertise, Python, and experience with CDC, Fivetran/Airbyte, and AWS. Hybrid NYC office with strong impact on healthcare data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, or software engineering, with experience owning production data infrastructure end-to-end.
• Deep Snowflake expertise, including warehouse configuration, RBAC and role hierarchy design, connector management, cost optimization, and performance tuning at the compute layer.
• Expert SQL, dbt, and Python skills, with experience building complex, high-performance queries and production-grade pipeline code.
• Proven experience building and maintaining source pipelines, including CDC via logical replication, Fivetran or Airbyte connector management, custom API ingestion, orchestration, and S3-based ingestion patterns.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, governance, privacy, and observability best practices.
• AWS infrastructure fluency, including RDS parameter groups, S3 bucket policies, IAM role configuration, VPC networking, and security groups.
• Preferred: Experience with data platform migrations and healthcare data familiarity.
• Preferred: Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Preferred: PostgreSQL expertise and RDS tuning.

Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake platform end-to-end and evolve the environment as usage scales.
• Own source pipeline reliability and expansion with new integrations and governance.
• Ensure data accuracy, quality, and compliance through governance and observability.
• Lead pipeline incident response with fast root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Improve data architecture and storage for performance and cost optimization as data grows.
• Act as the technical authority on data infrastructure decisions and set architectural standards.

Skills

Data engineering

Snowflake

SQL

Python

dbt

Fivetran or Airbyte

AWS

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Python

SQL

AWS

Job description

Verse Medical in New York, NY is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to own the data platform layer and scale critical pipelines. You will oversee source pipelines, data governance, and observability while shaping data strategies across teams.

Bring 8+ years in data engineering, deep Snowflake and SQL expertise, Python, and experience with CDC, Fivetran/Airbyte, and AWS. Hybrid NYC office with strong impact on healthcare data infrastructure.